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more importantly, they're more cpu intensive and slow to deal with large files
by ausjke 10y ago
more importantly, they're more cpu intensive and slow to deal with large files
- throwawayish 10y agoAsymmetric encryption adds constant overhead, independent of message size. Unless you're doing it wrong.
- ausjke 10y agowhile not an expert I disagree, encrypt a 1GB file must be different from 1MB file, no matter it is sym or asym encryption. normally Asym is for keys while symmetric encryption is for the real content.